An advantage of UDP is that the logger could be on another platform / computer. Although there's network DDE I have never tried it and don't want to try it to be honest.
Also I would say that UDP is easy in all languages, DDE is a tad complex in C++. Simon Brown, HB9DRV ----- Original Message ----- From: "kh6ty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dave, over five years ago now, I pushed for using a standard DDE interface > for all PSK31 programs so anybody could use his favorite logging probgram > with his favorite PSK31 program, and developers did not have to keep > reinventing the wheel. It also found little interest. :-( > > I'd still like to see that happen. The need never goes away!